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He lost me when he started talking about Startup Weekend. Some people may find that kind of thing fun, but sorry that's not a hackathon. I went to one a few weeks ago, and bailed when I realized business school students and hustlers out-numbered engineers 4 to 1. Entire teams of 7-8 people formed that didn't have a single technical person on them. I checked back with a friend afterwards, and apparently none of the to…
He lost me when he started talking about Startup Weekend. Some people may find that kind of thing fun, but sorry that's not a hackathon. I went to one a few weeks ago, and bailed when I realized business school students and hustlers out-numbered engineers 4 to 1. Entire teams of 7-8 people formed that didn't have a single technical person on them. I checked back with a friend afterwards, and apparently none of the to…
I don't doubt your experience but you've attended one event and are telling people to avoid it despite the fact they organize hundred of events all over the world. Each one has it's own organizers and compositions. They even focus on different topics (edu/gov/general/maybe more?). I've attended Startup Weekends and been an organizer (so you know my bias). But I've met lots of good developers at these events. Startup…
Don't ever get a domain with .xxx if you aren't going to create what it's meant for. Damn site is blocked at my work place.
Awesome. Dickey + I built weft.io for the last Angelhack (a couple weeks ago). We didn't win, but we definitely did a lot of things we were proud of.
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I don't doubt your experience but you've attended one event and are telling people to avoid it despite the fact they organize hundred of events all over the world. Each one has it's own organizers and compositions. They even focus on different topics (edu/gov/general/maybe more?). I've attended Startup Weekends and been an organizer (so you know my bias). But I've met lots of good developers at these events. Startup…
Why the hell do they call it a hackathon if it is not a hacker-only event? The only thing that happens at a marathon is running. They should come up with their own description and stop trying to trick hackers into showing up.
He lost me when he started talking about Startup Weekend. Some people may find that kind of thing fun, but sorry that's not a hackathon. I went to one a few weeks ago, and bailed when I realized business school students and hustlers out-numbered engineers 4 to 1. Entire teams of 7-8 people formed that didn't have a single technical person on them. I checked back with a friend afterwards, and apparently none of the to…
I don't doubt your experience but you've attended one event and are telling people to avoid it despite the fact they organize hundred of events all over the world. Each one has it's own organizers and compositions. They even focus on different topics (edu/gov/general/maybe more?). I've attended Startup Weekends and been an organizer (so you know my bias). But I've met lots of good developers at these events. Startup…
Don't ever get a domain with .xxx if you aren't going to create what it's meant for. Damn site is blocked at my work place.
He may also intend to host pornographic material! Who knows.
After the content has been accidentally upvoted to the front page of HN, the OP will then make sure to only serve porn when your IT department goes back to verify whether or not the content was actually SFW.
He lost me when he started talking about Startup Weekend. Some people may find that kind of thing fun, but sorry that's not a hackathon. I went to one a few weeks ago, and bailed when I realized business school students and hustlers out-numbered engineers 4 to 1. Entire teams of 7-8 people formed that didn't have a single technical person on them. I checked back with a friend afterwards, and apparently none of the to…
I don't doubt your experience but you've attended one event and are telling people to avoid it despite the fact they organize hundred of events all over the world. Each one has it's own organizers and compositions. They even focus on different topics (edu/gov/general/maybe more?). I've attended Startup Weekends and been an organizer (so you know my bias). But I've met lots of good developers at these events. Startup…
"Seeking technical cofounder!"